11-29-2007 06:02 AM - edited 03-05-2019 07:42 PM
Hi all, can anyone tell me why we have a multicast router handling multicast traffic on the network, what does it do, and how would we benifit from this centralized point
11-29-2007 06:07 AM
Hi,
Multicast traffic destined to a multicast MAC address, Only routers enabled multicast routing protocol can be member of this multicast MAC addresses and receive the traffic and do multicast routing. Non-multicast routers will drop the multicast packets at the layer2 itselft.
Thx
11-29-2007 06:23 AM
how do you enable multicast on the router? does it use a routing protocol ?
11-29-2007 01:02 PM
Yep, there are various multicast routing protocol. To enable multicast, in the global configuration mode you have to give ip multicast-routing...Rest of the configuration is depend upon the routing protocol you choose
11-29-2007 11:50 PM
can you give me example or scenario of this ?
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